Taiwan's upside down house
Building and designing a new house of your own may seem like a topsy-turvy experience for many. A group of architects in Taiwan embraced that surreal feeling by designing and building an 'ordinary' three floor American family house with everything inside -- from the car to the appliances to the toys on the floor -- upside down.
Here, a visitor poses inside the upside-down house created at the Huashan Creative Park in Taipei, Feb. 23, 2016. With a build price of $600,000 the house has just over 300 square meters (3,230 square feet) of floor space filled with real home furnishings.
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Dining takes on a whole new experience.
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Telling time is a little more difficult for upright folks.
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The project is on display until July 22, 2016.
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An outdoor staircase at ground level leads to the third-floor living room and its ceiling furniture.
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The colorful home has three floors, a master bedroom and bath, and a garage.
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The appliances in the house are real, with working lights throughout.
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Visitors look around an upside-down house, Feb. 23, 2016.
The architects worked on a commission from Taiwan's Culture Department.
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The overhead fireplace is not dangerous, luckily, since it is on an LCD screen.
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Opening drawers might be a little tricky.
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A visitor poses inside the upside-down house.
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Visitors take photographs outside of an upside-down house.
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The designers paid close attention to details: the pasta on the dinner table hangs vertically as do the bathroom towels, and a computer in the study has yellow sticky notes attached to it.